THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



39 



Clarence J. Weixi 



CLARENCE J. WELCH. 



jDECAUSE of the announcement that Clarence J. Welch, mana- 

 "-^ ger of the motor-truck tire department of the United States 

 Tire Co., has been advanced to the position of assistant sales 

 manager, that gen- 

 tleman is receiving 

 the congratulations 

 'jf his host of 

 friends in all parts 

 of the country. 

 Tlie promotion is 

 fully earned and 

 deserved, for Mr. 

 Welch has had a 

 practical and com- 

 mercial experience 

 e.x.tending over a 

 decade with the 

 company and its 

 predecessors. 



Born in Kala- 

 mazoo, Michigan, 

 in 1887, he was 

 educated in the 

 public schools of 

 that city, the Le 

 F e V r e Institute, 

 and the University 

 of Notre Dame. 

 Indiana, graduat- 

 ing from the latter in 1905. After some time with a regalia 

 manufacturing concern, and four months in a piano factory, 

 he went to Detroit as salesman for the Cable Piano Co. This, 

 however, not suiting him, he entered the employ of Morgan 

 & Wright, September 1, 1907, and spent a year in the fac- 

 tory, another in the sales department, learning the tire busi- 

 ness from the bottom. In 1909 he was made assistant man- 

 ager of the bicycle and motorcycle departments of that com- 

 pany, and when the concern was made a part of the United 

 States Tire Co. in 1911. he went to Chicago, Illinois, as 

 assistant to J. C. Weston, who, as central district manager 

 for the new company, was in charge of its business in twenty- 

 two central states. At that time Mr. Welch had charge of 

 the bicycle, motorcycle and truck tire sales. He made such 

 phenomenal sales records in these departments that in 1913 he 

 was transferred to the general offices of the company in New 

 York City and given general charge of the motor-truck tire de- 

 partment. His success in that field has led to his recent promo- 

 tion. His new position opens up a much wider field of responsi- 

 bility and opportunity. 



Mr. Welch is a member of the Society of Automotive Engi- 

 neers, The Motor Truck Club of America, and the Wykagyl 

 Country Club of New Rochelle, New York, in which suburb of 

 New York City he has his residence. 



STERLING TIRE CORP. BRANCH MANAGERS. 

 The Sterling Tire Corp., Rutherford, New Jersey, an- 

 nounces the following appointments: W. C. Clark, formerly 

 connected with the company's branch at Rochester, New- 

 York, now manager at Bridgeport, Connecticut, succeeding 

 W. M. Cowles who has resigned because of poor health; 

 George Buckridge now manager of the company's sales 

 branch at Albany, New York; Howard Lacey, formerly de- 

 tailed on special sales work in New York, now manager of 

 the company's branch at Hartford, Connecticut; J. P. Stiles, 

 formerly a salesman at the company's branch at Newark, 

 New Jersey, now manager of its branch at Providence, 

 Rhode Island. 



PURCHASING AGENTS ADOPT A STANDARD CATALOG SIZE. 



The National Association of Purchasing Agents, acting on the 

 consensus of opinion of twenty-four associations, representing 

 various industries, professions and trades, urges that all catalogs 

 meant for purchasing agents be made 7^ by 10^^ inches, or, in 

 Ihe case of small booklets of the half sizes, if saddle stitched, 

 one-half this size so that they will open up to the full size for 

 filing. 



Not only will this standardization facilitate buying, because 

 catalogs can be filed according to classes of material rather than 

 size, but it is claimed that it will result in saving millions of 

 dollars annually in the printing business and will release for 

 other work 30,000 employes formerly employed on hand-fed 

 i;resses. 



DRIVER-HARRIS IN CANADA. 



The Driver-Harris Co., Harrison, New Jersey, has incor- 

 porated in Canada as the Canadian Driver-Harris Co., Limited, 

 at Walkerville, Ontario, the date of incorporation being June 

 6, 1918. At present it will manufacture nichrome castings and 

 does not contemplate the making of rubber-insulated wire. The 

 officers are : Frank L. Driver, president ; Arlington Bensel, first 

 vice-president; Leon O. Hart, second vice-president; Leroy Ed- 

 wards, secretary and treasurer. 



RUBBER MANUFACTURERS RED CROSS AUXILIARY. 



Managers of the various rubber companies represented in 

 Fargo, North Dakota, by wholesale factory branches recently 

 had a dinner at the Gardner for the purpose of discussing the 

 formation of an auxiliary to the local JRed Cross, to be known 

 as the Rubber Manufacturers Red Cross Auxiliary, and com- 

 posed of the various branch employes numbering about fifty. 

 Arrangements for such an organization are now being completed. 

 Those present at the dinner were : C. J. Burns, Ajax Rubber Co., 

 Inc. ; A. T. Severs, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. ; R. M. Hakins, 

 ber Co. ; C. A. Moshier, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. ; J. P. 

 The Fisk Rubber Co. ; C. A. Williams, The B. F. Goodrich Rub- 

 Chambers, Marshall-Racine Rubber Co.; and D. B. Murdock, 

 United States Tire Co. 



RUBBER COMPANY TRUCKS HELPING THE RAILROADS. 



Completion of a census by The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron. 

 Ohio, of the volume of motor truck transport on the Cleveland- 

 Akron highway discloses the dramatic story that the relief to 

 the railroad lines between these important centers is 1170 per 

 cent over nine months previous. In car figures, this means 

 that this 40-mile highway is giving 885 freight cars a week to 

 other communities for more vital tonnage. If only an average 

 of 600 car-releases a week is maintained for twelve months, 

 this busy roadway will have saved for the nation 31,200 freight 

 cars. 



These statistics tell more vividly than all phrases how poten- 

 tial is the aid being given the hard-pressed railroad systems of 

 the country. They reveal likewise the tremendous strides made 

 in a trasportation industry that may in time rival the railroads. 

 Indeed, the Goodrich company is taking a leading part in the 

 formulation of plans whereby the region of which Cleveland 

 forms the center, extending to Toledo on one hand and Buffalo 

 on the other, will be traversed by motor trucks, making it 

 possible to move thousands of tons of short-haul freight which 

 has heretofore been handled by the railroads. Return-load 

 bureaus are to be formed with the idea that every machine will 

 be loaded to capacity both coming and going. There seems to 

 be no reason why all the comparatively short-haul and less-than- 

 carload shipments throughout the country cannot be entirely 

 taken off the railroads if similar arrangements are effected by 

 progressive firms in various industrial sections. 



